Recently, on this group, or perhaps rct.sewing, somebody mentioned making a small quilt as a yoga mat. Several people mentioned that this is a bad idea, as it would slide all over the floor.
I was at tepwnbwaw ("that evil place whose name begins with a "W", just seeing if I can get my own abbreviation for Wal-Mart going, much like tswalth? is and abbreviation for Joannn's, but then again Wal-Mart is a shorter than my abbreviation), and I was walking by the backing that you put down to keep rugs from slipping, and I wondered if attaching that the back of the quilt might make it not slip around and useable as a yoga mat.
My idea for attaching the non slip backing is to use much larger binding on the quilt than usual. I usually use binding that it 3 inches wide, so it is
3/4 of an inch wide once it gets folded over 4 times to bind the quilt. For the yoga mat, I am going to make the binding 20 inches wide, so it is 5 inches wide once it gets folded over. The edge of the non-skid stuff will be sewn under this binding, because obwiously for it to work, most of it has to be exposed. I hope this idea for holding it in works.The quilt itself is just a 4-square, with each square of fabric being as big as it possibly can be, 10" or so. It is not finished, because my machine is in the shop right now. I brought it to Cathey's, which is fairly close to where I live, but for the servicing, they send it to their downtown location for the actual work, because they are "consolidating," but I think that is just code for laying people off.
When it does get out of the shop, I will post some pictures, not so much of the quilt, but close ups of how I attached the non-skid stuff. I will also report on how well it actually warked in yoga class.
Brian Christiansen